Sunday, December 07, 2008

At a Theater Near You!

When I was teen I was a total James Bond freak. Ahhh....to have the James Bond life. What could be better than to travel to exotic locations around the world and be surrounded by beautiful women...hmmm....I guess that is kinda what I do now.

Well now it turns out I am actually a Bond villain...Malletfinger.My recent injury is called mallet finger and may need surgery. Funny thing is that I didn't even feel it happen. I was working in the studio taking things apart, then I looked down and go "holy deformed digits, Batman!" No pain...weird. For the time being I got a little splint till they figure out what to do with it. Ironically I was getting ready to head to Cincinnati for a photo shoot, of which is mostly hand shots. So far it hasn't affected my typing or art making but what a pain that they might have to operate. Beware the hook.

13 comments:

Sorry to hear about your finger...might be a fun trick at parties though...can you impersonate Danny Torrance's (Nicholson's kid in the movie) voice from 'The Shining'? Remember..he named his finger "Tony".....

(sorry...that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw your finger.. hope you can get better without the hospital.)

I was going to feel sorry for you Michael but you're making such light of it with the James Bond Malletfinger poster .... my "sorriness" has all gone...lol. A friend of mine kept her bedpan after a hospital visit and "altered" it beautifully .... with nails all sticking up where it'd be painful if you sat down. Looked cool!

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Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist from Vancouver, Canada who exhibits throughout the United States. As an educator, he has been actively involved with VSA Montana, providing art education and encouraging participation in the arts to people with disabilities. Through these activities, as well as his artwork, deMeng fosters community awareness, and offers creative methods to explore the human experience.

In his art, he addresses issues of transformation. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in his work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning.

These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.